The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-03-04
THE WEST.


Gently and for distance of six miles car
ried every thing before it, destroying fences
and cabins. The breadth was about forty
the Rocky mountains.
THE Iowa Supreme Court has granted an
injunction against the International Distil-
iery. restraining it from manufacturing al
coholic liquors except for mechanical, me-
dicinal and sacramento, purposes. 1t is the
only distillery in the State.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided
that it has no jurisdiction over the Lieuten-
ant Governor. The Robertson matter is thus
thrown back into the Legislature.
RICHARD RoEBECKER, a German citizen
Of Strasburg, HI, has been seized and
pressed into the service of the German
army while on visit to his old home. Sec
rotary Bayard is to be asked to act in the
case.
THE Union stove moulders at st. Louis
have decided not to accept the compromise
offered by the employers.
THE Michigan Republican State conven-
ton met in Detroit on the 23d and nomi-
mated the following ticket: For Supreme
Court Justices, short term, James B. Camp
bell; long term, Charles d. Long; for Re-
gSuIS VI luC Otdlc CHlSeTSttN, n. w. Dul-
terfelds and Charles Hebbard.
TIE legislative muddle in Indiana took an
acute shape on the 24th. The court claim
ing that it had no jurisdiction in the Lieu
tenant Governorship question, Robertson
demanded admittance as Presiding Officer
of the Senate. He was expelled by the
doorkeeper.
THE Union Labor convention, in session at
Cincinnati, selected the following National
Executive Committee: Messrs. Woodal,
Davis, Dean, Clark, Gruelle, Babb, Lovin,
Vincent, Wood, Mettie, johnson, Nolan,
Hull, Carpenter, Dubois, Hoyt, Winston,
Jenkins, Pike. Zane, Morton, Mills, Thomp-
son, George N. Smith, Sam Evans.
TIE Wabash line of lake steamers, which
was operated by the Wabash, st. Louis d
Pacific railroad from Buffalo to Toledo, has
been leased to the Erie railroad, and will be
put on the Union Steamboat line, which is
the Erie's lake line from Buffalo to Chicago,
and the Toledo service will be discontinued.
MRS. J. NJ. GUNNER, Of Indianapolis, Ind,
was burned to death by an explosion Of gas
oline recently.
The South st. Louis iron foundry, which
has been idle for five years, will be put in
operation shortly.
THE next meeting Of the National Editor
ial Association will be held in Denver, Col,
September Clio.
THE Industrial Gazette, of St. Louis, makes
the announcement that there has just been
uncovered near Tuscaloosa, Ala, bed of
red hematite iron ore sixteen feet thick,
which analyses 621a per cent. of metallic
iron. and is believed to be the most extern
sive and valuable deposit of the kind in the
United States.
Mrs. LOGAN has selected the center of
the circle OF the north end Of South park,
Chicago, for the burial place for herself
and General Logan, and the site for the
monument.
ANOTHER terrible blizzard was reported
in Dakota on the 18th.
The Legislature of West Virginia ad-
journed on the 18th without electing Q
United States Senator.
THE SOUTH.
IT was reported in Nashville, Tenn, that
the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad had
been sold to the Richmond q Danville.
HENRY z. DoDsoN, convicted in Augusta,
KY, Of vagrancy, has been ordered sold for
seventy five days to the highest bidder.
THE prisoners at Bolton, Tex, locked the
jailer in cell and all escaped. They car
ried the keys with them.
THE Interstate AgriC nltural Convention
opened at Lake Charles, La, on the I'D,
seventy-five delegates i,eing present from
Iowa, Wisconsin, Mir nesota, Arkansas,
Texas, Mississippi, Illinois, Nebraska and
Florida. Governor McEnery delivered an
address of welcome on behalf Of the State
and Hon. George Howell On the part Of the
people of Lake Charles.
THREE negroes attempted to rob a S ore
near Memphis, Tenn, recently and sho' Two
ladies'.
FIrTY-NINE head of horses were sold at
Lexington. KY, recently for S21, SO. No
large sums were paid.
THE river bank at Leota, Miss, CON-
menced caving in recently, carrying away
two or three buildings. Apprehensions were
felt that the whole town would go.
THREE men and two women, ''holiness
evangelists," recently preaching in Coluul-
bia, s. c., provoked the enmity of the
Catholic population. A mob ordered them
to quit the place, and on their refusing
halters were placed around their necks and
they were dragged and kicked until they
were nearly killed.
GOVERNOR LEE, of Virginia, has issued q
calling an extra session Of The
Legislature on the 10th CT March.